Speaking while campaigning, Sen. Hillary Clinton created distance between herself and supporter Geraldine Ferraro, who has said Sen. Barack Obama’s race plays a part in his campaign’s success, and that the news media have been unfair to Clinton.

“I do not agree with that,” Clinton said. “It’s regrettable that any of our supporters — on both sides, because we both have this experience —say things that kind of veer off into the personal.”

Later, she told MSNBC “I regret that it was said and I reject it.”

Ferraro has said anyone criticizing her remarks was racist. Does this make Clinton racist? Or is Ferraro still a kook?

University of Iowa students booed former Bush operative Karl Rove, who was paid $40,000 to speak there and take the abuse. That’s fine and dandy, I guess. But then two of the little pipsqueak college students tried to place Rove under citizen’s arrest, ostensibly for “war crimes.” In the dismissive words of Harvey Korman in “Blazing Saddles” as he pushed two teens out of the way en route to the theater box office: “Hey kid! You dropped your beads!”